Low HR Training

Stationary Bike (Read 560 times)

I would think that it would be easy to keep a consistent heart rate on a stationary bike. If I ride a stationary bike in a spin class at 24 Hour Fitness for an hour does that give me the same MAF aerobic workout as running for an hour?

If my heart rate is 125 is that all that matters regardless of which exercise I use to get it there?

I would think that it would be easy to keep a consistent heart rate on a stationary bike. If I ride a stationary bike in a spin class at 24 Hour Fitness for an hour does that give me the same MAF aerobic workout as running for an hour?

If my heart rate is 125 is that all that matters regardless of which exercise I use to get it there?

Yup, according to Maffetone.

I know Maffetone doesn't really consider Max HR in his method, but it still seems kind of weird to me that you can use the same HR. Its said that your MaxHR for cycling is about 10 beats lower then running because it has a limited weight bearing component and swimming is another 5-10 lower then cycling because it has nearly no gravitational compnent. So if you have a MAF of 125 and a running Max HR of 160, then a 125 HR for swimming is a higher percentage of a Max HR of about 140-145 for that activity and is most likely a pretty hard workout. Btut who am I to question such things?

And as a plus, cycling fitness crosses over to runninig fitness quite nicely where as running fitness doesn't help your cycling much. I would try to cycle at the same if not a higher cadence as you run.

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And as a plus, cycling fitness crosses over to runninig fitness quite nicely where as running fitness doesn't help your cycling much. I would try to cycle at the same if not a higher cadence as you run.

I have a really hard time getting HR near MAF on recumbent bikes. Haven't done a spin class since blowing my knee in one about 8 years ago so don't know if that would get me to MAF, probably could. For me it would be a really challenging workout since my measured max HR is 137, if on bike that would be 127 and with MAF of 106-112 range would be 84% of max which is on the high end.

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I would think that it would be easy to keep a consistent heart rate on a stationary bike. If I ride a stationary bike in a spin class at 24 Hour Fitness for an hour does that give me the same MAF aerobic workout as running for an hour?

If my heart rate is 125 is that all that matters regardless of which exercise I use to get it there?

if it's a spinning bike then I think you'll be able to reach MAF HR without too much effort.

if it's just plain stationary bike then you'll probably have a hard time to maintain MAF HR, you'll probably want to use some lower HR. at least that's how it is for me and the people I asked. muscles go *anaerobic* at a pretty low-ish HR. maybe the body itself doesn't have much stress but the muscles sure do. and that in my opinion matters a lot.